Edward
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I loved Thor too. I actually went a second time and dragged my college-age kids.
I wish it had been a little longer: there was plenty more stuff to explain, and the character development was very rushed. But the casting, effects, design work, and script (which managed to deftly balance drama and comedy, fantasy and science) were very good. And Chris Hemsworth was perfect casting, on the order of Christopher Reeve or Hugh Jackman!
They got it so much more right that I was expecting. My complaints were minor, and not necessarily defensible so much as what *I*, as a Marvel fan gong back to the early 70s, wanted to see (e.g., the Asgardians speaking in more full-blown bogus Shakespearean dialect.)
I'm hoping they have Thor on the plane to DC in a couple of weeks - I've not been able to catch it in the cinema. I do like the look of Thor himself a lot, though. Especially the beard. It always looked kinda wrong to me when Marvel presented the mythical Norse god as being clean shaven. He was a Viking! Come on! (Actually, I always put the cleanshaven thing down to contemporary US mores when he was created - would a beard have made him look q bit of an 'Ivan' in those days?).